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Back to SearchDyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
In 1969, a new sound began to dominate the airwaves in the UK, reggae.
This was terrible news for two Jamaican men, Len Dyke and Dudley Dryden who wer…
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Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
In 1999, Waheed Arian left his family in Afghanistan to seek refuge in the UK. He was just 15.
He was escaping violence, poverty and the threat of bei…
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The Rose Revolution in Georgia
In November 2003, the people of Georgia ousted veteran president Eduard Shevardnadze.
Protestors stormed the parliament building in the capital Tbili…
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The Sunflower Movement
Between 18 March and 10 April 2014, more than 500,000 people in Taipei, Taiwan, protested against a new trade deal with China.
It was one of the large…
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'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
After the death of her brother, engineer Thérèse Izay Kirongozi got to work handmaking huge robots to direct traffic and save lives.
In 2013 they wer…
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How the QR code was invented
In 1994, bar codes were in widespread use in businesses around the world, but the Japanese car component company, Denso Wave, wanted something quicke…
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The world's first general purpose electronic computer
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in Philadelphia, in the USA.
It was called the Electronic Numerical Integrator an…
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WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973. They called it the 'WABOT', the Waseda robot. It could see, …
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Eliza: When chatbots started
Eliza is the name of a 1966 invention by German born scientist, Joseph Weizenbaum, that is said to be the first chatbot.
Eliza worked by someone typin…
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The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
In 1973, two men pretending to be Colombian guerrillas took a plane and flew across Latin America for 60 hours. It was the longest hijacking of an ai…
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